Still old fashioned

[Jackrabbit1957]

Try soaking cotton in nitric acid based solutions, dry it and see how it burns.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Try soaking cotton in nitric acid based solutions, dry it and see how it burns.

lol

 

[hawg]

They grow a lot of cotton around here and yes it burns very easily and ignites at a very low temp.

 

[damoc]

Tallow is good (firm enough) on its own except in very warm environments lard does not seem to go off especially when mixed with beeswax.

I've heard of beeswax and lambs talo. The lard I'm afraid will get all nasty after while

 

[damoc]

How does it turn to plastic?

I honestly don't know the chemical reason but when I tried it for a time it coated the insides of the mechanism with a laquer like substance if it is not cleaned fairly quickly. It would not wash out with the normal soap and water and i had to peel it out and I think I used gasoline or something similar to finish cleaning it. It completely jammed the mechanism. It was possibly months from firing to cleaning so partly my fault but lard and beeswax has never done that too me even after 12 months.

 

[hawg]

I honestly don't know the chemical reason but when I tried it for a time it coated the insides of the mechanism with a laquer like substance if it is not cleaned fairly quickly. It would not wash out with the normal soap and water and i had to peel it out and I think I used gasoline or something similar to finish cleaning it. It completely jammed the mechanism. It was possibly months from firing to cleaning so partly my fault but lard and beeswax has never done that too me even after 12 months.

And this is from using it as an over ball lube?

 

[damoc]

Yes hawg

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Oh, okay, talking about under the ball. I'm kind of slow sometimes. Well...much of the time. Often? But wait! Mark-Squared said cotton in "front" of the bullet. I'm so confused.

Anyhow...to be fair, it depends on one's intended use. Fillers have their place for super light loads for SAS competition, or tying to produce the smallest group possible. Even though 99.99% of us will never use the pistol for it's intended use, we still want to load it as the pistol was intended to be used. !!! Then there's crazy people that carry the darn thing in the mountains with the lions and tigers and bears, instead of a Glock, (I do not own a Glock) and want to cram as much powder into the pistol as possible. (just discovered I can get 30 grains of 4fg under a ball in my .36 Remington. SHAZAM!!!!)

I'm not sure why I would try wasp-nest under that ball, when a lube-pill works so well over the ball. ? And as I've found in the past, lubed wads will contaminate the powder over time, so that is unacceptable to me. Pretty sure wasp-nest or cotton, etc., would not reduce fouling. On the other hand, I understand why someone shooting at the range or just plinking would not be very concerned with any of the above. !

 

[Ugly Sauce]

And this is from using it as an over ball lube?

That does not surprise me, vegetable based oils/grease can get gummy over time. (crisco is a vegetable based grease, right?) They will sure do that in power steering units, brake systems, or transmissions when used in a pinch. (it happens)

 

[hawg]

Allowing reduced loads is one thing I don't like about SASS and one I despise in the NSSA.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Allowing reduced loads is one thing I don't like about SASS and one I despise in the NSSA.

And pump-shotguns. How did that ever get started?? Always thought that was kind of lame.

 

[hawg]

And pump-shotguns. How did that ever get started?? Always thought that was kind of lame.

SASS is so messed up it isn't funny. I can understand not allowing double actions since it is the Single Action Shooting Society. They say guns used before 1899 but there's guns used before then they don't allow and guns that didn't exist back then they do allow.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I don't understand the 1899 "thing", other than to purposely allow a certain type of firearm that whoever makes the rules likes/wanted. Seems like 1873, 1880, or even 1892 would make more sense. (to me)

 

[Mark_Mark]

I don't understand the 1899 "thing", other than to purposely allow a certain type of firearm that whoever makes the rules likes/wanted. Seems like 1873, 1880, or even 1892 would make more sense. (to me)

the year the Century turned ?

 

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